RealPage – a private equity-owned corporation that creates software programs for property management – is finally responding to allegations it orchestrated a national rent price-fixing cartel that has sent rent prices through the roof.
Greed
Inside FICO and the Credit Bureau Cartel
Mortgage lenders face destruction as a cartel of Experian, TransUnion, and Equifax work with FICO to drive them out of business. Regulator and anti-monopolist Rohit Chopra is pushing back.
The Rise and Reckoning of Ticketmaster
Pearl Jam’s campaign against the monopoly, while noble, ended in financial ruin for the band – a poignant moment that underscored the unchecked power of monopolistic corporations.
Greed: Doctors take money from pharmaceutical firms…
Imagine if your car mechanic took $10,000 a year from Michelin tires for “consulting” and then tended to recommend their tires over Pirelli — even if the latter are on sale or better quality or both.
If Bayer really wanted to stand with farmers…
Bayer’s latest PR campaign seeks to align the company with farmers. But to truly stand with farmers and pesticide applicators is to expose Bayer’s PR spin and push the EPA to follow the science on glyphosate.
Trump versus Biden: The Macroeconomics of the Second Coming
INET documents the wealth gains made by the richest 10% of U.S. households during 2020-2023. These wealth gains, which have no peacetime precedents, enabled the richest American households to step up consumption, even when their real incomes were falling.
Documentaries Expose ‘Horror Movie’ Reality of Plastic Pollution
Two new documentaries expose the ubiquitous presence of plastic pollution in the environment and its potential risks to human health, particularly for developing fetuses and infants exposed to microplastics in the womb and through breast milk.
Farmers’ Protest in India Reignites
The plan is to displace the peasantry, create a land market and amalgamate landholdings to form larger farms that are more suited to international land investors and industrial farming.
Take Your Fluoride and Shut Up
If we could enforce our inalienable right to choose what goes into our bodies, there would be no need to waste eight years of time and money arguing the technicalities of toxins. We could just say: “Shut up and shove your fluoride.”
Plastics, Oil Industry Deceived Public on Recycling Use
Industries knew plastics could not be recycled, yet they promoted it to boost disposability profits, echoing Big Tobacco’s campaigns of deception.
Defusing the Derivatives Time Bomb: Some Proposed Solutions
The “protected class” is granted “safe harbor” only because their bets are so risky that to let them fail could crash the economy. But why let them bet at all?
The scourge of microplastics
Microplastics have now been found in our blood, showing they can travel around the body, potentially ending up lodged in our organs.
